Marcia B. Siegel

Dance Review: Monkeyhouse and the Ties That Bind

October 27, 2015
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I missed the trademark orange Dynel wigs and the zany non sequiturs of the past, but Karen Krolak and the crew were still playing with fractured language.

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Fuse Dance Review: Boston Ballet—Mahler Multiplex

October 24, 2015
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My overall impression of the ballet was of earnest pretension.

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Fuse Dance Review: Doug Varone and Dancers—Dense and Transparent Layers

October 20, 2015
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Doug Varone’s strong sense of design, color, and music lends depth and a certain mystery to his dances.

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Dance Review: Ids in Captivity

October 10, 2015
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Most of the piece was carefully engineered; it seemed more calculated than liberated

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Dance Review: Choreographer Leonid Yakobson — Soviet Rebel Under Cover

September 22, 2015
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Boston Ballet’s reconstructed versions of Yakobson’s Pas de Quatre and four Choreographic Miniatures were a revelation.

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Dance Review: Choreographer Paul Taylor’s Extraordinary Domain — on Film

September 16, 2015
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A fascinating documentary in which you get both a Paul Taylor dance and the making of the dance.

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Dance Commentary: Is Dance Criticism Dead?

September 1, 2015
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Neither dancers nor the dance audience are out on the barricades demanding more and better dance coverage.

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Dance Review: Jessica Lang Dance’s “The Wanderer” — Beware the Brook

August 3, 2015
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Perhaps there’s no way to reproduce the subtlety of this work in the theater today. Our stages are so materialistic, so technological.

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Fuse Dance Book Review: “The Ballet Lover’s Companion” — One Way of Looking at it

July 22, 2015
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Zoë Anderson’s volume aims to give readers a handy way to discern the most influential ballets from among the confusing proliferation that we find in today’s repertory.

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Dance Feature: Jacob’s Pillow Archive — Rebooted

July 4, 2015
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Jacob’s Pillow’s revamped archive is a sort of museum as well as a library. A catalogue of the holdings is in the works. .

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